• Soumalaya
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• 2009-06-26
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Be Different, Get Creative in Learning

In an earlier post i had emphasized upon the importance of originality in writing. We all have different approaches and ideas about various things and ideally, your writing should reflect your own ideas and not those of other people. In order to bring creativity and lend your writings a distinct touch, consider visualizing the incident you are writing about. If you are writing a travelogue, describe things as they appeared to you and not how they are commonly perceived. Describing the Taj Mahal as a magnificent piece of architecture puts nothing new on the plate. But maybe when you looked at it, you saw something unusual. A crack, a fissure, an oddity that struck you. Write about that. It’s your own work and you have the right to describe things as you see them.

If you have taken up the task of writing about something you haven’t seen then try to imagine yourself in that situation. Like our takes on things, our thoughts also run in different directions. Given the same scenario, your friends might imagine completely different things which may not even occur to you. These varied flights of fantasy will make your imaginative work stand out with fresh, new perspectives. Make sure you avoid the cliched descriptions of things and observe carefully to bring something different to the limelight. Look beyond the obvious and creativity is yours.

• Soumalaya
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• 2009-06-16
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Tell Your Story as You Begin to Write

While writing, the first hurdle we face is choosing a topic. Many of us go for essay books that are available in the market and try to write on the same things. We even try to emulate the writing style as we tend to think that the essays in these books are examples of acceptable/desired writing styles. Actually when it comes to style, variety is the key. Each one of us have our own ways of playing with languages and are each distinguished by our own ways of dealing with topics. So it is very important to cultivate our own styles rather than adopt someone else’s.

I guess this is why i feel that writing about ourselves is a great way to start. Instead of choosing topics from books, we should just pick up the pen and write about ourselves, our lives so far, our experiences, likes and dislikes and so on. No one knows us better and each of us will have unique opinions on things going on around us. Every person will have his/her own story to tell. In addition to our writing skills getting better, this will also cultivate originality. There is no collection of essays in the market that can write about our lives. Only we can.

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